8-Day Uganda Wildlife and Primate Safari (Chimpanzees & Gorilla Trekking)
This 8-Day Uganda Wildlife and Primate Safari will give you the best sightings in Uganda. You will experience amazing game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park, see the chimpanzees of Kibale National Park, encounter mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, and have a game drive and morning nature walk in Lake Mburo National Park.
8-Day Uganda Wildlife and Primate Safari Highlights
Arrive at Entebbe International Airport and meet our safari driver-guide, who will transfer you to your accommodation.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: D
After breakfast, depart Entebbe and drive to Kibale National Park.
The scenic drive takes you through rolling countryside, tea plantations, and traditional villages, with a stop in Fort Portal for a city tour en route. Arrive in the afternoon.
If you arrive early enough, optional activities (at extra cost) include a Bigodi Swamp walk, crater lake visits, or the Amabere Ga Nyina Mwiru Caves for cultural insight.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
Rise early for a morning chimpanzee trek through Kibale’s pristine rainforest.
Hike in search of these intelligent, playful primates, often spotting them at close range. The trek lasts several hours depending on the chimps’ movement.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
After a relaxed breakfast, start the transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Drive further southwards with the Rwenzori ranges in view, or drive through the crater lakes in the hills to sample the surprising diversity of savannah trees and wildlife!
Reach the lodge and enjoy the impressive view over Queen Elizabeth National Park and an evening game drive.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
Discover Queen Elizabeth National Park in the cool morning.
We go for an early lion tracking experience accompanied by experienced trackers who use radio telemetry to locate the park’s lions.
After lunch in the afternoon, embark on a boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel. Here you have the chance to spot hippos along the banks of the channel.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
Transfer through the Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park on the way to Bwindi.
In Ishasha, we will drive off into this adventurous, vast savannah area with topis and the southern version of elephants to hopefully get the lions high in the fig tree branches.
Continue the transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Bwindi is the home to the forest giants, the mountain gorillas.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
Have an early breakfast and get ready for the highlight of this tour.
Set off into the forest with a specialized guide, trek through beautiful nature, and finally get to spend one hour in the area where the mountain gorillas are.
Besides the gorillas, this impenetrable forest is full of birds, butterflies, plant species, forest hogs, forest elephants, sitatungas, and duikers.
After the trek, enjoy a packed lunch and head back to rest at the lodge or go for a community walk.
Accommodation:
Meal Plan: B, L, D
After breakfast, drive to Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda’s smallest park.
Enjoy a game drive seeing topi, impala, giraffe, eland, waterbuck, buffalo, and zebra, then continue to Kampala, crossing the equator, and onward to Entebbe International Airport for your departure.
Meal Plan: B, L
8-Day Uganda Wildlife and Primate Safari Inclusions and Exclusions
Included
- Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
- Chimpanzee tracking permits
- Lion tracking permits
- Domestic Flights
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water (On all days)
- AMREF Flying Doctors evacuation cover
Excluded
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$15.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Some meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
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